The chip truck at Canadian Tire here in Kanata makes the best poutine. I’m not kidding!
Koo Loo Koo Koo Koo Koo Koo Koo!
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I guess speaking more broadly, are there chains that are representative for authentic poutine and what poutine should taste like? Fries, cheese and gravy are probably going to taste good to me no matter what but I don’t want to be some doofus who gets inferior poutine and doesn’t know any better.
Pretty sure Manitoba is in the prairies. What do we call electrical power? Hydro.
What is the electric company called? Manitoba Hydro.
Nips - Pretty much exclusive to Winnipeg (not a lot of Salisbury Houses outside the perimeter.) It is shorthand for going to Salisbury House - like saying lets grab a Big Mac. Not only are proposing getting a burger but going to a specific restaurant.
Donair - For some reason this particular delicacy refuses to meaningfully cross into Manitoba (perhaps Saskatchewan as well but I don’t know)
Scribbler - Yup used it here too - still do.
If you mention that you smell something unexplained (like toast when none is cooking) Canadians of a certain age might (jokingly) ask if you are having a stroke.
The snarky and non-snarky way to tell me I was wrong.
“That’s not news, but that too is reality.”
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^ Anyone remember that?
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I’m Quebec they call it “hydreau.”
Of course. Walter Cronkite, on CBS News. That gravelly voice also “hosted” (for lack of a better term) all the space launches we saw.
Not who I had in mind. Did Cronkite sign off like that?
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It was actually the sign off of Global TV anchor Peter Trueman on every news broadcast from the mid-70s to late-80s.
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Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati
No one I know my age (60) uses or understand “bi and bi,” even those few who know of the commission. But that may be a BC thing.
I have been told that the term “rubby” to refer to an alcoholic is a Canadianism.
Which are bloody expensive now, by the by…Juniors and VJs are still a pretty good deal. Gotta fuel up since the midnight snack of kielbasa, cheese, rye bread and mustard doesn’t get out out until midnight!
I smell burnt toast - SEIZURE!
Also, “Including Vince Coleman dispatcher.”
“Skookum” is originally a Chinook Jargon word, that is, from the trading language, or pidgin, (that is, a simplified language used between two different groups who do not share a common language), used in the Pacific Northwest in the 19th century, rather than a “Native” Word.
Keep your stick on the ice!
Maybe… but in this case pronouncing Toronto as “Trawn-ah” is a pretty widespread occurrence. I blame Don Cherry.
Someone the other day pointed out that it’s only in the Ottawa area that people refer to someone as being “in nets” i.e. “Who’s in nets tonight?”
Absolutely no one I know says in “nets.” In “net” perhaps. But isn’t that fairly common colloquial term?
I hate to break it to you but “in nets” is quite commonly used here in Ottawa, up the Valley, and in the Eastern townships, by almost everyone that grew up here be it in minor hockey, road hockey or even sportscasters.
Just today by Dan Seguin
Try googling “in nets” Ottawa in News and and there are almost 1200 usages.
ETA, sorry, I misread your post. I guess my question is whether it is common across Canada or just a regional thing.
Muffin was in to provide the Thunder Bay isms “shag” and " persians" but he forgot “camp” which is the word for cottage or summer home on a lake… it ,as have no electricity or running water… or it might be a million dollar showplace. No matter. Ithe is not a cabin or a cottage; it’seems a camp.
Also …my 13 ýear old son is the only one who has a pack-sack. Everyone in Vancouver (Vang-couver!)has a back pack.